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Gender equality focus of International Women’s Day event

Women all over the world continually make huge contributions in their communities, and beyond, said Donna Abbott.

They have “made great strides” toward equality, while contributing to their communities socially, economically, culturally and politically, said Abbott, a parishioner at St. James and St. Brendan Anglican Church.

But recently, she said the progress toward gender parity has slowed down.

Although the World Economic Forum predicted in 2014 that it would take until 2095 to achieve global gender parity, a year later, the organization revised its prediction.